By Barbara Olejnik
Poultry Times Staff
bolejnik@poultrytimes.com
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 "critical infrastructure" sectors considered so vital that their incapacitation or destruction would seriously hurt the country.
One of these "critical" sectors is the Food and Agriculture Sector, which is almost entirely under private ownership.
The sector is composed of an estimated 2.1 million farms, 935,000 restaurants and more than 200,000 registered food manufacturing, processing and storage facilities.
This sector accounts for roughly one-fifth of the nation's economic activity.
Agriculture and food have. . .
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